Can that list be reduced to specific physiological medical abnormalities, all of which have been found at least in three independent, unrelated studies? If not, it only consolidates the critic’s belief: at this point in time, it looks like a decade of intensive research did not lead to conclusive evidence.
Certain forms of mental therapy which help patients with known psychological conditions as well as cancer patients may help CFS sufferers live with their symptoms, maybe even alleviate a hypothetical physiological cause. How is that a bad thing? Until there is a physical cause found, and a physical therapy developed, it is the only thing that helps.
To entirely dismiss mental help does disservice to CFS sufferers and may cause the CFS lobby to be perceived as sectarian.
